Richard Nixon

Contemplating a Republican-controlled Congress coping with narcissistic President Obama leaves me looking for "change we can believe in." Some readers remember that a sensitive "new" Richard Nixon emerged in the mid-1960s, supposedly unlike the nasty combative "old" Nixon of the 1940s and 1950s. In a few years, though, the "new" looked much like the "old." Barack Obama is no Richard Nixon. But his "new" proclamations about working with Congress, seeking agreement, etc., will likely give way to his "old" natural tendencies of fighting to have his own way faster than a Joe Biden gaffe. To understand Obama's...

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Contemplating a Republican-controlled Congress coping with narcissistic President Obama leaves me looking for "change we can believe in." Some readers remember that a sensitive "new" Richard Nixon emerged in the mid-1960s, supposedly...

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